High compliance with newborn community-to-facility referral in eastern Uganda:.an opportunity to improve newborn survival.

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Published in PLoS One on November 29, 2013

Authors

Christine Kayemba Nalwadda1, Peter Waiswa, Juliet Kiguli, Gertrude Namazzi, Sarah Namutamba, Göran Tomson, Stefan Peterson, David Guwatudde

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; Health System Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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